David Ignatius at the Washington Post profiles Cheney's other Cheney, the pro-torture David Addington. He is one of these who takes the phrase "The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States" to mean that James Madison and the boys meant to create a military dictatorship when they wrote the constitution. Maybe he's right. via Laura Rozen.

For all those who have been trying to keep up with (and make sense of) the story of Sibel Edmonds, the woman who learned terrible things while translating for the FBI, blew the whistle and was promptly fired and gagged with the court invented "state's secrets privilege," there is good news. Lukery, proprietor of the excellent blog wot is it good for?, has put in the time and gray matter to piece together what we can learn from what she can say around her gag order. (Which was recently upheld...

Check out these pathetic right-socialist warmonger types trying to claim that Americans aren't bothered by the recent National Security Agency wiretapping scandal. Citing a Rasmussen poll, "NewsBusters" claims, "the nation doesn

Today at Antiwar.com, the great reporter from Balkanalysis.com, Christopher Deliso has an article about another very interesting convergence of the felony case against the vice president's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Please call me Scooter" Libby and the natural, er, civil rights case of FBI translator/whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. For those who may have fallen behind, it seems the case that many - there are so many, who can keep track? - of the scandals of the Bush II administration are...

What a hell of a year that was, huh? Lots of killing. I'm hoping for less this year, though the number of people who can adequately debunk the State's case for Iran building nukes is down to the Iranians themselves, and Dr. Gordon Prather of Antiwar.com and World Net Daily. ("I'm not a defender of Iran!! It's just that Cheney-Rice are lying about everything," he tells me.) For those not familiar, Prather's case is that there is no evidence, after 2 years of carte blanche inspections by the...

Less killing in '06!

Oh, how I loathe the Democratic Party. How many times in reference to Iraq, torture, Plame's name, the Military tapping our phones, etc. have I heard a Goddamn Democrat say, "Oh, boo hoo, the President's bad policies are hurting the real war on terrorism." There is no real war on terrorism. The whole thing is a big lie. Though this may be pretty redundant to those who purposely read and think on a regular basis, if this war was ever to be legitimate at all, it would have been a war on al Qaeda...

Hey everyone, check out this great speech by Eric Garris, the founder and director of Antiwar.com, at the Perdana Peace Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia about the difference the web has made for those who oppose the warfare state. "U.S. politicians are confused by the Internet. They have for years trumpeted military force as the best vehicle for changing humanity. With the Internet, we see the precise opposite principles and methods in play. Whereas American politicians believe themselves to be...

William Arkin has some bad news: "The Curious Section 126 of the Patriot Act What is it that the National Security Agency began doing after 9/11 that necessitated Presidential authorization for warantless surveillance? We have all learned in the past week that the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978 contains provisions that allow the government to conduct quick reaction surveillance of an individual and go to the court afterwards for a warrant. So what would the NSA need to do...

What do you get when a foreign power, which used to prop up the minority dictator in its colony, turns and overthrows him without a real plan for his replacement? Civil war, that's what. According to the Associated Press, under the misleading title "Keeping Iraq Intact": "Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's...

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Anthony Gregory, over at the Future of Freedom Foundation, describes the worse - deadly - communist police state with all the deadly Frankenstein controls:"The NSA spying program is especially egregious, given that the administration circumvented the already lower standards for surveillance set forth by FISA and unleashed an arm of the military to spy on Americans

Remember how the justification for the US government's permanent blockade and eventual aggressive invasion of Iraq in 2003 was based on the idea that Saddam Hussein was in defiance of the cease fire agreement that ended his war with the United Nations in 1991? For the sake of making the real point of this post, we can neglect the fact that, as former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter has explained,"Within months of this resolution being passed

"The road from Nazareth to Bethlehem begins by dropping down from a ridge south of Galilee into the Jezreel Valley, looking out across Jordan and Samaria. It is a 90-mile route defined by the journey of Mary and Joseph 2,000 years ago, although Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are unhelpful about the exact route, and the Bible does not mention the traditional nativity scene donkey. Any direct route that foot passengers would have taken in the era of Caesar Augustus, retraced today, inevitably...

The great libertarian journalist and author Jim Bovard, author of the forthcoming Attention Deficit Democracy has a new blog and his latest is about a subject Jim's regular readers are probably all too familiar, the evil wannabe National Police Force known as the Department of Homeland Security. Citing that Washington Post article from Thursday, Bovard writes"The creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)